The Cold War By Rookie_052 Feb 4, 1945 Yalta Conference Period: Feb 4, 1945 to Dec 30, 1991 The Cold War Period: Feb 4, 1945 to Feb 11, 1945 Yalta Conference May 8, 1945 Victory in Europe Day Jul 17, 1945 Potsdam Conference Period: Jul 17, 1945 to Aug 2, 1945 Potsdam Conference Jul 25, 1945 Test Baker, underwater nuclear explosion Aug 6, 1945 Atomic Bomb Deployed Aug 14, 1945 Victory over Japan Day Feb 9, 1946 Stalin's "hostile" speech Mar 5, 1946 Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech Mar 5, 1946 Stalin responds to Churchill's Speech with Pravda Mar 10, 1946 Truman demands Soviets leave Iran Jul 1, 1946 Operation Crossroads, Test Able. US first public demonstration of nuclear arsenal Feb 25, 1947 Czechoslovakia becomes Communist Mar 12, 1947 Truman Doctine announced Jun 5, 1947 Marshall Plan announced Sep 2, 1947 Rio Pact - US and Latin America countries create security zone around the hemisphere Mar 2, 1948 Truman's Loyalty Program created ti catch Cold War spies Mar 17, 1948 Brussels Pact organized to protect Europe from Communism Period: Jun 24, 1948 to May 12, 1949 Berlin Blockade Apr 4, 1949 NATO Ratified May 12, 1949 Berlin Blockade ends Aug 29, 1949 USSR test first Atomic Bomb Aug 29, 1949 USSR's first Atomic Weapons test Oct 1, 1949 Communist Mao Zedong takes control of Mainland China and establishes the People's Republic of China Dec 1, 1949 Chiang Kai-Shek's Nationalist Government moves to Formosa(Taiwan) Jan 30, 1950 Truman approves H-Bomb development Feb 9, 1950 Joe McCarthy begins Communist witch hunts and loyalty tests. Period: Jun 25, 1950 to Jul 27, 1953 Korean War Jul 24, 1950 Korean War begins Nov 1, 1950 Soviet Pilots secretly deployed over Korea Apr 11, 1951 Truman dismisses MacArthur from Command in Korea Jan 12, 1952 Federal Civil Defense Administration established Oct 3, 1952 The UK developes and tests nuclear weapons Mar 17, 1953 US test more atomic weapons in Nevada Apr 15, 1953 RAND reports on the "Vulnerability if US Strategic Air Power" Jul 27, 1953 The conflict in Korea "ends" in a ceasefire Nov 8, 1953 Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace speech Mar 1, 1954 Castle Bravo - US tests H-Bomb Mar 13, 1954 The KGB is founded Jul 21, 1954 Vietnam Splits Dec 31, 1954 CIA helps overthrow "unfriendly" regimes in Iran and Guatemala May 1, 1955 Warsaw Pact formed Period: Nov 1, 1955 to Apr 30, 1975 Vietnam War Jun 29, 1956 USSR send tanks into Poznan, Poland, to suppress demonstrations by workers Sep 4, 1956 USSR sent military aid to Afghanistan Period: Oct 23, 1956 to Nov 10, 1956 Hungarian Revolution of 1956 Oct 29, 1956 Suez Crisis begins Period: Oct 29, 1956 to Nov 7, 1956 Suez Crisis Jun 26, 1957 Vostok rocket (derive from the R-7 series of ICBMs) launches. Oct 4, 1957 Sputnik launched Nov 3, 1957 Sputnik II launches - Laika dies in Space Jan 31, 1958 Explorer I launched Oct 7, 1958 NASA begins Project Mercury Jan 1, 1959 Cuba taken over by Fidel Castro Sep 1, 1959 Khrushchev visits the US May 1, 1960 Soviet Union reveals that US Spy Plane was shot down over Soviet Territory. Dec 19, 1960 Cuba openly aligns itself with the USSR and their policies Period: Apr 17, 1961 to Apr 19, 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion Jun 4, 1961 The Berlin Crisis of 1961 begins Aug 13, 1961 Berlin Border closed Aug 17, 1961 Construction of Berlin Wall begins Oct 16, 1962 The Cuban Missile Crisis begins Period: Oct 16, 1962 to Oct 28, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Aug 5, 1963 Nuclear Test Ban signed Jul 2, 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident Oct 16, 1964 China begins nuclear tests Period: Mar 2, 1965 to Nov 2, 1968 B-52 bombing of North Vietnam (Operation Rolling Thunder) Apr 24, 1965 US intervention in the Dominican Civil War Jul 1, 1965 200'000 US Troops sent to Vietnam Jan 23, 1968 North Korea captures USS Pueblo Aug 20, 1968 Warsaw Pact invades Czechoslovakia in response to the Prague Spring Jul 20, 1969 First Man on Moon Feb 13, 1971 Pentagon Papers published Mar 5, 1971 US withdraws from Vietnam Period: Feb 21, 1972 to Feb 28, 1972 Nixon visits China May 26, 1972 SALT I (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) signed Sep 11, 1973 Chilean coup d'etat Nov 11, 1975 Angolan Civil War begins Jan 16, 1978 Iranian Revolution Apr 20, 1978 Korean Air Lines Flight 902 shot down Feb 17, 1979 The People's Republic of China invades the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Jun 18, 1979 SALT II (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Agreement) signed Nov 4, 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis Dec 24, 1979 USSR invades Afghanistan Period: Dec 24, 1979 to Feb 15, 1989 Soviet-Afghan War Sep 1, 1983 Korean Air Lines Flight 007 shot down Feb 28, 1986 Perestroika introduced in the USSR Jan 1, 1988 Glasnost introduced in the USSR Apr 21, 1988 1988 Polish Strikes begin Nov 9, 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall Oct 3, 1990 Germany reunites Dec 30, 1991 Fall of the USSR Dec 31, 1991 Russia becomes Successor State to the USSR in the UN and other UN Branches.